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How Would You Use Technology to Push the Boundaries of Music?

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How would you use technology to push the boundaries of music?

 

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Last May, Ben and Felix were on hand for Music Tech Fest Berlin, AKA a creative playground for music tech hackers, makers and developers of novel instrumentation and emerging artists. They were there to lend there expertise to 50 element14 Hack Camp participants who were provided with kits that included Beagle Bone Blacks, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, microphones, speakers, LEDs, and more!

 

MTF brought performers, technologists and innovators from around the world together to reinterpret ways of perceiving, experiencing and performing music through Open Source technology.  Ben and his team interviewed, judged - and, in some cases, joined teams addressing the challenges in the hack camp.

 

 

The winner of the element14 Grand Prize went to Electronic Jungle who successfully paired element14 components with the #MusicBricks RIoT board. Their @MusicBricks project won Eyal Weisz, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves, Andrew Hlynsky, Stefan Flecke, Maryam Khatoon, Ylenia Gortana, Esther Zahn, Miguel Cabrera and Katariina Nyberg $2500 worth of element14 components.image

 

Music Tech Fest supports and promotes hack culture as an important source of creativity. The MTF hack camp runs for 24 hours from Saturday afternoon to Sunday. As with the Music Hack day events, it focuses on music-related hack challenges, with an emphasis on performance with tangible objects, physical concepts, and new integrations between software and hardware. Past events have engaged with ideas of accessibility, fashion and wearables, and creative spaces.

 

Music Tech Fest was founded in London in 2012 and has taken place in Berlin, London, Paris, Umea, Boston, Ljubljana, and Wellington on multiple occasions. By bringing the MTF community and companies together, the festival enables testing, expanding, and rapid innovation as well as a place where individuals can receive support, make connections, get exposure and advice on ideas and projects.

 

 

 

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  • As more devices come on line this will become even more useful.  I love music and have 3 PCs with audio that can feed me audio info, one mostly Pandora, I also have an Amazon Echo that I play music from.  Unfortunately there are very few simple mixers that take multiple audio sources and feeds a single out that is amplified for Speakers.  To take it one step farther and where it should go is that all these devices can connect Bluetooth.  How about a single Bluetooth Audio Mixer that takes up to say 8 devices connecting Bluetooth and mix the audios so they come out one output.  In my case I think they should have 3.5 mm jacks.  Also do not make the mistake BOSE makes with their Bluetooth Audio Adapter and only allow one audio at a time.  That defeats the whole purpose of audio coming in from any source to the output.  This is very doable but I do not have the engineering expertise to do it.  It is possible to do this with several components but there should be something like this on the market.

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    I've thought about making some sort of web-based device that could sync multiple music players together to form a band.  The problem is that you can't hear the other players without a delay.  If each device is fitted with a small time machine, it could be possible.  If the internet and the anti-internet packets collide however.............image

    Scott

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    I've thought about making some sort of web-based device that could sync multiple music players together to form a band.  The problem is that you can't hear the other players without a delay.  If each device is fitted with a small time machine, it could be possible.  If the internet and the anti-internet packets collide however.............image

    Scott

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